Black bear spotted in Marin County front yard, as captured on security camera. WildCare director explains how to help keep bears away and protect homes.

A 7-year-old boy was airlifted to the hospital after experiencing symptoms consistent with a rattlesnake bite at Mt. Diablo State Park. Park authorities urge hikers to remain cautious and alert on trails during rattlesnake season.

Experience the power of water as two of California's largest reservoirs, Lake Oroville and Lake Shasta, reach full capacity and put their newly renovated spillways to the test.

San Jose's Happy Hollow Zoo welcomes critically endangered baby lemurs, raising awareness of their shrinking wild population.

Oakland Zoo welcomes its first-ever white-handed gibbon baby, as the endangered species sets a milestone at the zoo.

Discover the remarkable return of the wolverine to California, an animal not seen in the state for 100 years! Enjoy video of this rare creature spotted in Yosemite and the Sierras in May 2021.

Witness the rare sighting of 24 orcas off the Farallon Islands, believed to be preying on seal and baby whale pups.

A plan to reintroduce sea otters to the Bay Area is gaining momentum, with hopes of restoring crucial links in the San Francisco Bay's food chain and rebuilding kelp forests along the coast.

Santa Clara takes a high-tech approach to controlling mosquito populations by deploying drones to perform mosquito management in difficult-to-reach, nonresidential areas.

The two-baseball diamond Jackson Park in Potrero Hill has just been approved for a $40 million facelift, with added park and playground space, sidewalk gardens, and bathrooms being modernized into a more deluxe “clubhouse.”

The plan to make the former Pacific Rod and Gun Club into an 11-acre Lake Merced public park was shot down in 2016, but the plans for the park are back on, promising boat decks, a skate park, and a ropes course.

Following last year’s untimely death of her mate Blue Boy, 28-year-old mute swan Blanche has gone on to the great lagoon in the sky, as the swan who lived nearly her whole life at the Palace of Fine Arts died last Thursday.

The long, arching Aquatic Park Municipal Pier at the western end of San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf could be shut down for good following an earthquake last month.